April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College
April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College
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CLASS NOTES<br />
brings many good things for all<br />
of you—whether with family<br />
or friends, at work or at home,<br />
in the U.S. or abroad. I spent<br />
the past two months bouncing<br />
between presentations at four<br />
academic conferences and a<br />
faculty exchange in Vienna—so<br />
I’m looking forward to spending<br />
at least the first couple months of<br />
<strong>2012</strong> in Denver! If your travels<br />
bring you to Colorado, please let<br />
me know.<br />
1999<br />
Erik Holmes<br />
915 East Mayfair Ave.<br />
Orange, CA 92867<br />
Nat White<br />
11 Interlaken Road<br />
P.O. Box 800<br />
Lakeville, CT 06039<br />
1999secretary@williams.edu<br />
Well, we’re halfway between<br />
our 10th and 15th reunions<br />
(closer to 15 by the time you<br />
read this), and it’s shaping up to<br />
have a slightly different flavor.<br />
The biggest news flowing in<br />
remains new arrivals; we have<br />
a lot to report this time around,<br />
and more on the way.<br />
Rochester, N.Y., doctor Colby<br />
(Hunter-Thompson) Previte has<br />
used the July arrival of her<br />
daughter Ainsley Madeline<br />
Hunter Previte to simplify<br />
her life; as she returned from<br />
maternity leave, Colby switched<br />
from working in three hospitals<br />
to one. In addition to operating<br />
and doing obstetrics, Colby is the<br />
medical director of the OB/GYN<br />
residency clinic at her community<br />
hospital, and she runs the<br />
women’s health curriculum at the<br />
medical school; she has gotten to<br />
see and work with several Ephs<br />
in her latter two roles. Colby,<br />
Greg, Ainsley and 5-year-old<br />
Carter also get to enjoy the<br />
newfound proximity of Colby’s<br />
sisters Kristin Hunter-Thomson ’03<br />
(and her husband Malin Pinsky<br />
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’03) and Whitney Hunter-Thomson<br />
’07. Milwaukee-based Tim<br />
Stoddard and Emily Gillmar ’00<br />
welcomed Emma Ruth Stoddard<br />
into the world on Sept. 17.<br />
Emma arrived as Tim continues<br />
his progress toward being a fullfledged<br />
MD and Emily uses her<br />
architectural talents to improve<br />
their condo.<br />
Back in Brooklyn, Ted Mann<br />
and his wife Suzanne Miazga<br />
celebrated the birth of Leonardo<br />
Francis Miazga Mann on Sept.<br />
30. When they are not playing<br />
with Leo, Ted is an assistant<br />
curator at the Guggenheim<br />
Museum, and Suzanne is a high<br />
school art teacher. Ted is also<br />
working toward a PhD in art history<br />
at the Institute of Fine Arts,<br />
NYU. A scant four days later in<br />
Boston, on Oct. 2, Dan Pozen and<br />
Heather Garni welcomed their<br />
second child, daughter Tess Willa<br />
Pozen. Tess joins big brother<br />
Evan, 3, and she has already<br />
met Dave Willett, Courtney<br />
Stokes Willett, Mike Johnson<br />
and Danielle Kunian Wallis. Also<br />
in Boston, Imelda (Ramirez)<br />
and John Berry-Candelario<br />
welcomed their second child,<br />
Maya Ideliz Berry-Candelario,<br />
on Oct. 23. On the other coast,<br />
Leo Eisenman was born on<br />
Oct. 26 in greater LA. He was<br />
welcomed home by proud papa<br />
Ian Eisenman, mom Ariane Verdy<br />
and 2-year-old big sister Maya<br />
Verdy Eisenman. Leo made it<br />
in time to dress up as a cat for<br />
Halloween. Ian has finished his<br />
postdoc and has taken a job<br />
farther south in California, as an<br />
assistant professor at the Scripps<br />
Institution of Oceanography, so<br />
you can find them now in San<br />
Diego.<br />
We return to the East Coast<br />
for our next few new arrivals.<br />
On Nov. 6, New Yorker Taylor<br />
Smith and his wife Ana Aguilar<br />
welcomed Lucia Elizabeth Smith<br />
into the world. They are doing<br />
well, and 2-year-old Natalie<br />
is enjoying life as a big sister<br />
so far. Chris Rodriguez and his<br />
family moved back to his home<br />
state of New Jersey in July,<br />
when Chris started working as<br />
a policy advisor on homeland<br />
security to N.J. governor Chris<br />
Christie. On Nov. 11, Josephine<br />
Amanda Rodriguez was born<br />
in Princeton. Chris, Amanda,<br />
Josephine and 2-year-old<br />
Julianna are all enjoying the<br />
proximity of Chris’ sister Joanna,<br />
her husband Rik Dugan ’98 and<br />
their children Isabella, 7, and<br />
Roderik, 4. In New Paltz, N.Y.,<br />
Marie Glancy O’Shea and her<br />
husband Colm O’Shea welcomed<br />
daughter Sufi Zoom O’Shea on<br />
Nov. 14. Marie’s take on the<br />
arrival: “When I was in labor we<br />
went to see Melancholia, Lars<br />
Von Trier’s film about the end of<br />
the world, and that’s when the<br />
contractions finally kicked into<br />
gear. After the credits rolled we<br />
walked straight from the cinema<br />
to the hospital, where we said<br />
goodbye to our own old world<br />
and entered a new one.” Back in<br />
N.J., Matt and Kathleen Higgins<br />
Sigrist continued to expand<br />
their family with the arrival<br />
of Elizabeth Higgins Sigrist,<br />
nicknamed Ginny, on Dec. 15.<br />
Her sisters Katie and Anna<br />
were thoroughly excited by the<br />
early Christmas gift, and Matt<br />
is now totally outnumbered. We<br />
conclude this section of births<br />
back in Southern California,<br />
with my co-secretary Erik Holmes<br />
and his wife Shannon Reid<br />
welcoming their first, Declan<br />
Timothy Holmes, on Jan. 6. Erik<br />
reports that all are doing well. I<br />
know we’ll have more births to<br />
announce by the next round of<br />
notes, including several that will<br />
just miss my deadline for these<br />
notes, others that will push up<br />
against the next deadline and<br />
probably some in between.<br />
In addition to babies, our<br />
class continues to expand by<br />
marriage. Kelley Powell married<br />
Doug Welsh on Oct. 28 at Swan<br />
Harbor Farm in Maryland.<br />
Kelley is thrilled, and she has the<br />
distinction of having the only<br />
wedding reported in this round<br />
of notes.<br />
We have writers! In addition<br />
to those whose work is seen in<br />
popular culture, like Rachel Axler,<br />
and the many of our classmates<br />
who publish academic papers,<br />
Roosevelt Bowman got a mention<br />
in The Wall Street Journal<br />
(and elsewhere) for his article<br />
examining the decline of the U.S.<br />
dollar. Dayna (Kaufman) Lorentz<br />
has four books coming out in the<br />
spring: her Dogs of the Drowned<br />
City trilogy is being published<br />
by Scholastic in <strong>April</strong>, May and<br />
June; and the first book in her<br />
young adult trilogy No Safety in<br />
Numbers will be published by<br />
Dial Books for Young Readers in<br />
May. Dayna is enjoying being a<br />
mom and living in Vermont with<br />
Jason Lorentz ’96.<br />
We now shift from those<br />
with good reason to stay at<br />
home to those on the move to<br />
new homes. Marina (Gisquet)<br />
Knight, her husband Chip ’08<br />
and son Cedar have moved to<br />
Hanover, N.H., where Chip
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